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Portuguese textile artist Vanessa Barragão's large-scale handwoven artworks using techniques of her ancestors such as latch hook, crochet and felt needle with recycled materials #womensart

Folk-Inspired hand painted eggs by Dinara Mirtalipova, self taught illustrator and designer, born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan #WomensArt

I gotta say, “women are going to space” sounds a lot nicer than “the ultra rich are taking hyper-polluting joyrides to space while the planet descends into climate chaos”

Happy National Gardening Day. I inherited a rectangle of half-dead grass back in August. Today it’s not looking too shabby!

Leeds Dock - Yorkshire

Contemporary Nova Scotia textile artist and quilter Laurie Swim creates quilt art which captures her local landscapes #womensart

Brilliant new Bee Gees artwork in Chorlton ❤️

Apparently Nigel Farage is Clactose intolerant

Embroidered leaves by US artist Hillary Waters Fayle #WomensArt

New mural in Chorlton (they lived here as young uns - played their first gig here).

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David Hockney - The Arrival of Spring

#InternationalWomen'sDay

#Caturday kvtvrin63 OFFQUAKE

Embroidered art by York based artist Chloe Giordano #WomensArt #Spring

🔴M&S Hit by Customer Boycott Over GB News Adverts After Presenter Labels LGBTQ+ People ‘Paedos’ Thousands of customers are threatening to stop using the supposedly LGBTQ+ inclusive retail giant bylinetimes.com/2025/02/24/m...

On 15 March 1939 Hitler and his deputy summoned the Czech President to Hitler’s residence in Berlin and then bullied him to submitting to a German invasion of his country. They drove him to the point of physical collapse, threatening him until he eventually signed his country’s death warrant.

Catcliffe Glass Kiln, Rotherham. Established c.1740 by William Fenney. The oldest surviving of its kind in W. Europe.

A waiter in a café walks straight past me with my cup of tea. I wave. He looks over and smiles. Waiter: I'm sorry. I was having a memory. Of my brother. And so somehow, I was looking instead for him.

Botanically-accurate knitted and crocheted sculptures of flowers by artist Tatyana Yanishevsky #WomensArt

Beach Finds #Withernsea

Heronry, 2022, etching by Janis Goodman #WomensArt

'Small fox' by Jackie Morris, artist, illustrator and author living and working in a small cottage on the Welsh coast #womensart

US artist Liz Sexton creates papier-mâché animal heads/masks #Wom3nsArt

Amber silver crow pendant by Hannah Willow, English artist/ jewellery maker whose work is influenced by folklore and nature #womensart

Unpopular opinion: I have no tolerance for reality TV, celebrity or otherwise. If you have nothing more to offer, I’m really not interested. (Talent shows are exempt. If you can bake/sew/throw a pot or 2, you’re good)

Truth 😎

Tried mixing Mexican alcohol with 20th century American literature last night. Ended up with tequila mockingbird

'Sacred Spring' by Tamsin Abbott, UK stained glass artist influenced by nature and the world of myth and fairytale #womensart

Coastal Path (Inspired by breezy walks along the South West coast path) - by Dorset illustrator and graphic designer, Laurie King More of this artist's work, here: #landscapes #routes #art #Dorset

My parents, c.1960

You might expect that one of the world's biggest media organisations admitting to illegal practices in accessing private information about a member of the royal family and a government minister would be front page news across the board, but apparently not.

'Many of us...have a feeling that we are living in a country where fanatics, hooligans and eccentrics have got the upper hand.' British Ambassador to Berlin, 1933.

Antiquing

Ooh Matron!